If you want a 3G iPhone without an AT&T contract, you can get one. Eventually. For $599 for the 8 GB version or $699 for the 16 GB version. That’s a 200 percent markup over the $199 price tag for the 8 GB version with a contract. AT&T isn’t providing details yet on when this hoped-for option will be offered (will it look like the SIM card plan?), or if the iPhone is unlocked, but a spokesman said all will be revealed before the July 11 launch.
No-Contract iPhone Found in AT&T Press Release —
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12:47 PM PT
[...] tendrá el nuevo iPhone 3G de varios operadores y no parecen caras… Ahora nos enteramos, por un post en el blog de Om Malik y algo de ayuda de Boy Genius Report, que AT&T está pensando en lanzar [...]
12:09 AM PT
[...] tendrá el nuevo iPhone 3G de varios operadores y no parecen caras… Ahora nos enteramos, por un post en el blog de Om Malik y algo de ayuda de Boy Genius Report, que AT&T está pensando en lanzar [...]
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8:08 AM PT
A Rip-off in waiting?!
10:08 AM PT
The $199 price tag seemed too good to be true.
12:20 PM PT
So, if you can get the $199 iPhone with contract, instantly cancel the contract and only pay a $175 early-termination fee, why would anyone pay $599 for the contract-free iPhone?
Technically, you may have to wait 30 days to cancel, and pay for service for 1 month, but that’s still a lot cheaper.
10:08 PM PT
I hope this same thing (iPhone without a contract) comes to India also.
9:31 PM PT
Mike Cerm,
If you do that, the contract states that you must return the iphone as well.
9:48 AM PT
The hidden terms of the iPhone2 contract seems to be unfair to consumers. Everytime we take out the sim card for temporary use with another handset and put it back to iPhone we need to “re-activate” the phone and the contract gets extended for 2 years from the “re-activation” date. I have to switch to my old Palm Treo temporarily for some calls so as to use the call recording feature. If I keep doing this I will be on contract with AT&T for my whole life. A “bonded customer”. Isn’t this an unfair trade practice??
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